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PixVerse prompt makes 30-second Japanese MiniDV-style video of a young girl

AIPixVerse shares a prompt for a 30-second video styled as early 2000s Japanese private MiniDV footage. The prompt specifies a young girl's appearance from reference images, a store scene matched to a street reference, and a handheld camera following her closely in mostly close-up framing with 10–12 hard cuts.
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Create a 30-second video in the style of a Japanese private MiniDV footage from the early 2000s. [Refer to the provided pictures] The characters are strictly based on the character pictures. Picture 1
The entire scene focuses on the face of a young girl, brown short-layered hair, bangs, blue star-shaped hair clips, orange-white hair clips, skin color, body proportions, purple and light purple striped long-sleeved top, dark denim skirt, brown belt, long necklace, purple pointed high heels. The scene strictly follows the provided Japanese street and store scene pictures. Picture 2. The external structure of the scene, the location of the store, the awning, the entrance, the wall, the street, and the relationship of nearby buildings are all kept consistent. The store interior must logically connect to the store in the reference picture. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
【Highest priority shooting rules】
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ This is the most important requirement for the entire video. The picture is always: "Another traveling companion holds a home MiniDV and follows the main character very closely for filming." The photographer and the main character almost always move together. The photographer is not standing in the distance waiting for the main character to come. The photographer is not setting up the camera to shoot. The photographer is not using a stabilizer for follow-up. The distance between the photographer and the main character always remains: about 0.5 - 1.2 meters. The distance inside the store is closer: about 0.4 - 0.8 meters. The camera always revolves around: the main character's face;
above the chest;
shoulders;
hands;
drinks;
local movements. [It is strictly forbidden to use full panorama, long shot, or full body shots throughout the entire video.] It is forbidden to film the main character in full body. It is forbidden to make the main character become a small figure in the background. It is forbidden to pull the camera away to show the environment. If the environment needs to be shown: it must be done through the main character's side of the shoulder, the back of the head, quick sweeping of the lens, and close-over shoulder composition. In most shots: the main character's face above the chest occupies about 55% - 80% of the screen height. The picture is always "close to the person". ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
【Handheld shooting feel | Highest priority】
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ The camera must have a very obvious real handheld feel. It is not random digital vibration. It is generated by the photographer's body: walking up and down;
foot impact;
slight left and right shaking;
slight Roll tilt;
quickly re-arranging the composition;
turning around with the camera half a beat later;
the camera occasionally briefly cutting off half of the main character's hair or shoulder;
the photographer stops and the camera still has a little inertia;
occasionally slightly over-head when approaching the person and then correcting. The camera must never be completely stable for more than about 1 second. When the main character is walking: the camera must continuously generate obvious step-up and step-down movements. When the main character suddenly turns around: the camera needs to quickly follow. When entering the store: the camera follows her into the store, generating obvious shaking and exposure changes. When the person looks at the camera: the camera may have a very small re-arrangement due to the photographer's reaction. The overall must be like: a friend holding a MiniDV and walking while filming. Not a TV drama. Not an advertisement. Not a stabilizer. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
【Editing rules】
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Use about 10 - 12 shots within 30 seconds. Each shot is approximately 1.5 - 3 seconds. The rhythm is significantly faster than the previous version. A lot of: HARD CUT. It is forbidden to use fade-in and fade-out. It is forbidden to use slow dissolve. It is forbidden to have a long stable shot. There can be slight jump cuts between shots. Like the video has been quickly edited. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Shot 01 | 0:00 - 0:03
Walking side by side in the rain Don't shoot the main character walking towards the camera from a distance. The photographer and the main character: They are walking side by side forward on a rainy Japanese street. The photographer is positioned about half a meter to one meter to the left or right of the main character's body. The camera is very close. The shot: A close-up of the main character's upper body. The upper part of the transparent umbrella enters the top of the frame. The umbrella edge is occasionally cut off by the composition. The main character is walking while holding the transparent plastic umbrella. Raindrops are densely hitting the umbrella surface. The background of the Japanese street scene keeps shifting due to the movement of the camera: shops;
electric poles;
wet walls;
awning;
Bicycle;
Signboard;
The wet road reflects the light. But the background is always just the environment behind the main character. Do not shoot the environment independently. The camera and the main character move together. Clearly there are: up and down steps fluctuations;
slight left and right shaking;
occasionally the horizontal line is tilted a little. The main character slightly shrinks her shoulders when she is cold. She turns her head to look at the photographer beside her. She naturally smiles. While walking, she says in Japanese: "It's cold. I'll shelter from the rain inside for a while." The tone is casual. It's like chatting with a friend. After saying this, she continues walking. Do not stop to face the camera and speak. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Shot 02 | 0:03 - 0:05
See the store
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ HARD CUT. The camera is still close to the main character. A close-up of the chest image from the side. The main character has walked near the store in the reference scene. She looks at the store. The camera quickly shifts its focus towards the store following her gaze, and can only briefly see: the awning;
the entrance;
a partial signboard;
warm indoor lighting. Do not show the complete panoramic view of the building. The camera immediately returns to the main character's face. She takes two steps forward and enters the eaves. The camera also follows her into the house. There is a clear up and down vibration in the picture. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Shot 03 | 0:05 - 0:07
Quickly fold the umbrella
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ HARD CUT to close-up from the side. The main character comes under the awning. The main part of the picture is: the chest;
the face;
the transparent umbrella;
both hands. She quickly closes the transparent umbrella. The movement is natural and smooth. The umbrella surface: snaps closed. Raindrops drip from the transparent plastic umbrella surface. Because the camera is very close to her: it first follows her face down to her hands and the umbrella, then slightly slows down and raises it up again. Then CUT to a very short close-up of the hand: she directly puts the folded transparent umbrella into the umbrella rack at the door / leans it at a designated position next to the door. The umbrella must be realistically left there. It is forbidden for the umbrella to suddenly disappear. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Shot 04 | 0:07 - 0:09
Enter the store
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ HARD CUT. The camera is almost positioned behind the female protagonist's shoulder. The protagonist pushes open the glass door. The photographer follows her into the room. The doorbell: Ding-ding. The camera, having entered from the outside into the interior, suddenly brightens the exposure a little; then automatically adjusts; the focus briefly searches. The picture should not be stable. After entering, the protagonist turns around half a body position and naturally says to the boss inside: "Hello-er." CUT to a very short close-up shoulder-over shoulder shot: The boss is standing inside the counter. The boss is an ordinary Japanese middle-aged or slightly older man, wearing a simple shirt and a dark work apron. The boss simply responds: "Come in." Do not shoot the boss for a long time. Immediately CUT back to the protagonist. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Shot 05 | 0:09 - 0:11
Heading towards the beverage section
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ The camera is repositioned to the side front of the protagonist. It closely follows her as she passes through the narrow shelves. The main shot remains: chest view / above the shoulders. The shelves quickly pass by in front of the camera. Occasionally, they shade the protagonist's half body. The camera is shooting while backing away, as the space is narrow: the camera has obvious slight up and down shaking and left and right corrections. Do not have a shot of her walking from behind at a long distance. Do not allow stable backtracking of the back. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
【Interior of the store】
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ This is an old-fashioned Japanese neighborhood grocery store, not a modern convenience store. The space is narrow. Realistic, with a sense of life, slightly crowded. Including: old-fashioned metal shelves;
old-fashioned freezers;
glass-door beverage cabinets;
Japanese snacks;
bottled green tea;
canned coffee;
juice;
soda;
sports drinks;
Pozzi soda;
milk beverages;
instant noodles;
rice crackers;
candies;
potato chips;
cookies;
sauce and seasonings;
plastic baskets;
paper boxes;
a small amount of fruits and vegetables;
old-fashioned fluorescent lights;
simple paper price tags;
handwritten Japanese labels. Do not have a modern large convenience store. Do not have modern LED light strips. Do not have high-end decoration. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Shot 06 | 0:11 - 0:13
Looking at the beverages
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ HARD CUT. Close-up of the protagonist's side face. The camera is near her right or left shoulder. She opens the beverage freezer. The freezer lights illuminate her face. She quickly scans the beverages. The camera moves from her face: quickly shakes to the beverage bottle, then shakes back to her face. With a little unprofessional DV operation feeling. Do not slowly display the products. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Shot 07 | 0:13 - 0:16
The protagonist and the photographer talking
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CUT to a close-up above the shoulders. The camera is about 0.6 meters away from the protagonist. The protagonist has already picked up a bottle of beverage. She looks at the bottle body. Then suddenly looks at the camera. She naturally smiles. She says to her friend holding the camera: "Maybe I should drink. My throat is a little dry." During the conversation: The camera has continuous very light handheld shaking. Do not completely lock her face. After she finishes speaking, she immediately looks away and continues to look at the shelves. Do not act like an advertising host. Do not keep staring at the camera. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Shot 08 | 0:16 - 0:18
Selecting the beverage
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ HARD CUT to a very close hand and half-body composition. The protagonist compares two bottles of beverages. The movement is fast. She picks up one bottle. The other bottle is put back in place. Only one simple selection is allowed. Do not have the bottles suddenly change. Do not have any extra beverages in the hand. Then the camera quickly tilts up to her face. The heroine gave a very relaxed little smile. She said, "Let's do this." CUT. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Shot 09 | 0:18 - 0:21
Arrived at the cashier counter
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Close-up shots of the heroine walking towards the cashier counter. Still no panoramic shots. Use: Close-up of the heroine's shoulder over the shoulder. The boss is behind the front counter. The heroine always holds the same bottle of drink she just selected with her left hand. [This is very important] From this moment on, the drink belongs exclusively to the heroine. The boss must not touch the drink. The heroine must not hand the drink to the boss. The boss must not take the drink from the heroine's hand. No beverage exchange is allowed between the two. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Shot 10 | 0:21 - 0:23.5
Payment | Minimalistic action
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ This is the highest priority continuity requirement. CUT to a close-up of the hand. The heroine: Her left hand is always holding the drink and placing it on one side of her body. Her left hand is not involved in the transaction at all. Her right hand takes out a single bill directly from her wallet: [One bill.] Only one. She extends her right hand. Directly hands this bill to the boss. The boss makes only one movement: extends one hand and catches this bill. The movement ends. Do not continue to show the change. Do not show the boss returning the money. Do not give a plastic bag. Do not give a receipt. Do not scan the drink. Do not allow the boss's other hand to touch the drink. Do not allow the heroine to hold the drink, money, change, and bag at the same time. The entire payment action is only: the heroine's right hand extends a single bill.
→
The boss caught the banknote in his hand.
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CUT. The contact time between the two hands was very short. Complex finger interactions are prohibited. Pulling of banknotes is forbidden. Two people holding the drink together is also prohibited. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Shot 11 | 0:23.5 - 0:25
Thank you, boss.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Immediately CUT back to a close-up of the main character's chest. She is still holding the same bottle of drink in her hand. The main character nods slightly. She says naturally, "Thank you." The boss responds off-screen or in the background: "Thank you." Do not pull away to shoot the boss. The camera remains by the main character. After she finishes speaking, she turns around and walks towards the exit. The camera immediately follows. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Shot 12 | 0:25 - 0:27
Escaping through the door
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Follow the main character closely to the door. The camera is positioned beside her shoulder. She pushes the door open. The doorbell rings. The rain outside suddenly becomes louder. The exposure changes briefly as it goes from indoors to outdoors. The photographer follows her under the eaves. The entire process: The camera shakes noticeably; the character is occasionally cut off a little bit of her shoulder; the photographer quickly recovers the composition. The transparent umbrella placed earlier at the door: It remains in the same position. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Shot 13 | 0:27 - 0:30
Ending under the eaves
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ The last shot is still: a close-up of the main character's chest. Do not cut to a full shot. The photographer stands at a distance of about 0.6 - 0.8 meters from the main character. The main character is standing under the eaves. One hand holds the drink she just bought. The transparent umbrella is beside the door at the entrance, and it doesn't need to be reopened. The background can be seen through her shoulder: continuous falling rain;
Wet Japanese streets;
Blurred bicycles;
Shop awnings;
Water surface reflections. The main character first looks outside at the rain. Then turns back. She realizes the photographer is still filming her. She suddenly smiles naturally. Do not exaggerate with a big laugh. Like friends: "Why are you still filming?" She can briefly let out a little breathy laugh. The camera is very close: there is a small re-focusing. The face briefly becomes blurry, then immediately becomes clear again. She continues to smile and look at the camera for about 0.5 seconds. The recording suddenly stops. Like a real home DV being directly pressed to STOP. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
【Main Character's Performance】
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Character traits: lively;
lovely;
natural;
very familiar with the photographer;
not an actor-like performance. She likes to occasionally look at the camera. But she cannot keep looking at it. It is recommended to only show about 4 - 5 clear looks at the camera throughout the 30 seconds: once while walking and talking at the beginning;
once when choosing a drink in the store;
once when getting the drink;
once after payment;
once under the eaves at the end. Her smile should vary: a slight upward curve of the corner of the mouth;
a short moment of smiling eyes;
a very soft and quiet laugh;
finally a slightly more obvious natural smile. Do not have the same big laugh in every shot. Do not fake laugh. Do not have exaggerated cute expressions. Do not frequently tilt the head to be cute. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
【MiniDV Visual Characteristics】
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ The goal is not: high-definition modern video + retro filter. The goal is: a real video recorded by a consumer-level MiniDV by friends in the early 2000s. Picture: soft DV details;
limited dynamic range;
clear CCD highlight overflow;
slightly blue tint in the rainy outdoor scene;
slightly yellow-green tint in the fluorescent indoor light;
inaccurate automatic white balance;
slight digital compression;
slightly soft edges;
occasional automatic exposure breathing;
occasional automatic focusing search;
slight motion blur. But the picture should not be deliberately made very messy. Do not: VHS snow;
VHS tracking lines;
film scratches;
35mm grain;
modern HDR;
film-level color grading;
super shallow depth of field.

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Original title: Create a 30-second video in the style of a Japanese private MiniDV footage from the early 2000s. [Refer to the provided pictures] The cha...